Journal article
Effect of genetic drift on determinants of protein evolution
Biology Letters, Vol.14(7)
2018
Abstract
A number of previous studies reported that gene expression, tissue specificity, gene essentiality and the number of protein-protein interactions influence the rate of protein evolution. Here we investigated the influence of effective population size (Ne) on these determinants of protein evolution. For this purpose, we compared the ratio of non-synonymous-to-synonymous diversities (piN/piS) estimated for protein-coding genes of Mus musculus castaneus and Mus musculus musculus: populations with high and low Ne respectively. Our results revealed that the difference between piN/piS estimated for genes with high and low expression levels was significantly smaller for M. m. musculus compared to that observed for M. m. castaneus The difference between the piN/piS of broadly expressed and tissue specific genes was much higher for M. m. castaneus compared to that of M. m. musculus. Furthermore, the difference between the piN/piS computed for essential and non-essential genes was much smaller for M. m. musculus than M. m. castaneus A similar pattern was observed for genes involved in many protein-protein interactions versus those involved in one. These results suggest that the effects of the determinants on protein evolution were much reduced for the population with small Ne due to increased genetic drift.
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- Title
- Effect of genetic drift on determinants of protein evolution
- Authors
- Sankar Subramanian (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Science, Health, Education and Engineering
- Publication details
- Biology Letters, Vol.14(7)
- Publisher
- Royal Society of Chemistry (R S C) Publications
- Date published
- 2018
- DOI
- 10.1098/rsbl.2018.0167
- ISSN
- 1744-9561
- Organisation Unit
- School of Science and Engineering - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Science, Technology and Engineering; Centre for Bioinnovation
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450854502621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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